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From Richmond to Rome, from Des Moines to Daegu, Olympic gold medalist Francena McCorory has run hundreds of races. Never had she blazed 400 meters like this. At the USA outdoor track championships Saturday in Iowa, McCorory ran a personal best of 50.01 seconds to qualify for her second world championships. But it wasn't good enough. It wasn't good enough to beat Natasha Hastings, and it certainly wasn't good enough to satisfy her coach. "She should have won that race," said Maurice Pierce, McCorory's coach since her college days at Hampton University. Pierce contends and McCorory confesses that she ran the first 200 meters "too relaxed,"...

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From Richmond to Rome, from Des Moines to Daegu, Olympic gold medalist Francena McCorory has run hundreds of races. Never had she blazed 400 meters like this.
At the USA outdoor track championships Saturday in Iowa, McCorory ran a personal best of...